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laura needs to practice!!
caffinatedloz:
I have not been using my auslan nearly as much as I should. :(
However, last weekend I had two really great experiences which have shown me just how useful having auslan can be. Firstly, when I was working with a deaf girl on Saturday we were able to sign the names of all of the animals we saw at the farm which she really enjoyed! Secondly, when I was helping out at a festival on Sunday, there was a lady there with her interpreter. Being able to have a conversation with her one-on-one was really wonderful!
I should definitely be doing more, but I think that this pause may continue a little until after exams are over. Summer is always a good time to pick up an old hobby.
caffinatedloz:
I had heaps of practice today. An hour and a half of conversation after using sign language with a little friend I work with all day. ;D
caffinatedloz:
Someone yell at me! I haven't done any auslan since I last posted. I just don't even know where to practise anymore, because all of the groups I was in have kind of dissolved after classes finished for good. There are two local community groups, but both are full of retired people who speak fluent auslan and I just feel left behind.
At the minute, the only signing I do is key signing at work.
My mum knows some auslan, so I was thinking about forcing her to practise with me but she's not keen.
Things are not going well.
Bri MT:
--- Quote from: laura_ on November 20, 2019, 07:32:07 pm ---Someone yell at me! I haven't done any auslan since I last posted. I just don't even know where to practise anymore, because all of the groups I was in have kind of dissolved after classes finished for good. There are two local community groups, but both are full of retired people who speak fluent auslan and I just feel left behind.
At the minute, the only signing I do is key signing at work.
My mum knows some auslan, so I was thinking about forcing her to practise with me but she's not keen.
Things are not going well.
--- End quote ---
If you're the least skilled person in the room it'll probably be very uncomfortable initially but you'd probably learn fast?
Would you be able to find an internet group and do video based practice?
caffinatedloz:
--- Quote from: Bri MT on November 20, 2019, 08:31:34 pm ---If you're the least skilled person in the room it'll probably be very uncomfortable initially but you'd probably learn fast?
Would you be able to find an internet group and do video based practice?
--- End quote ---
I have treid to go to these groups in the community a fair bit, but I often find that I don't learn fast, I just don't learn anything. A lot of the conversation is about specific people in the Deaf community and I don't know enough about the culture to understand it, even if they sign slowly. I know that there's a school super close to me that offers auslan, so I'd love to somehow connect with students from there, but they had the same issue at the community group and so stopped coming.
An online group could be the way to go! I'll have to keep my eye out on all of the auslan facebook pages! ;D
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